BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

S.Y. 2023-2024

Performance Task in Earth Science

First Quarter, First Semester

PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF EARTH’S MATERIALS AND RESOURCES

PERFORMANCE STANDARD: The learners will be able to make campaign materials based on scientific data and evidence, which
the community may use in conserving and protecting the Earth’s natural resources for the present and future generations.

TRANSFER GOAL: The students, on their own and in the long run, will be able to create a campaign material for the conservation
and protection of the Earth’s materials and resources.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
How can one’s understanding of the scientific data and evidence be useful in protecting and conserving our Earth’s materials and
resources?

ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING:
The students should be able to understand that the Earth’s natural resources must be properly protected and conserved to maintain a
state of balance between and among the different subsystems for the benefit of the present and future generations.

ENGAGING SCENARIO:
The City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology
(DOST) will hold its annual campaign expo for the protection and conservation of earth’s materials and resources.
As earth science students who currently focus on the study of earth’s materials and resources, the office invites you to join the
expo! You are required to create campaign material that may encourage governments, civil society, private sectors and the general
public to protect the earth’s materials and resources including rock and mineral resources, water resources, energy resources and soil
resources.
Among the attendees who will evaluate your campaign material are the CENRO and DOST personnel and environmentalists.
They will look at the content, organization, innovation and uniqueness, and impact of your material.

The following elements must be reflected on your material:

  General information: the campaign material must provide scientific data and evidence (minimum of 3) about the current
status of the Earth’s materials and resources you want to focus on.
 Environmental concerns and issues: give (minimum of 3) accurate information based on researches about the concerns
and issues of your chosen Earth’s materials and resources.
 Recommendations and solutions: provide appropriate and sustainable solutions and recommendations (minimum of 5) to
solve the concerns and issues of your chosen Earth’s materials and resources.
 References: show a detailed list of references where you got all your information.
* Please be mindful of copyright laws to avoid plagiarism.
Here are a number of steps that you can take to avoid plagiarism: (from https://www.carthrottle.com/post/alm44xp/)
1. Don’t copy and paste articles from other websites on the Internet. This is a severe form of plagiarism.
2. If you want to use images from other articles/sources on the Internet, make sure you give credit to the original owner (unless
the image is copyright-free). You can attribute the image source by listing the name of the publisher or the URL that the
picture came from (e.g. Source: www.carthrottle.com)
3. It’s always a good idea to include links to the websites you used to get your information from!
4. If you decide to take a quote from someone else, make sure you give them credit! (e.g. According to Kyle Ashdown, “Mia has
much less body rust than Phil.”)

Note: Your output must be shared on your individual social media accounts to make the general public aware of the present problems
that we face and experience, as well as sustainable solutions and recommendations regarding the Earth’s materials and resources of
your choice.

Guidelines:
This task would require you to create a campaign about the Earth’s materials and resources. Below are the guidelines for this
performance task:

On the campaign material:

- The output should not include exploitative, explicit, or excessively morbid images/pictures.
- All data included in the output should be based on a proper resource.
- Any copyright violation would invalidate your submission.

On Submission
- Submissions, including posting of the output on your personal social media accounts, will be until August 26, 2023 (11:59
p.m.). If the output and posting were done after the given due date and time, the maximum score would only be within the
"Developing" margin.
On Groupings:
- The class would be divided into groups of at least 7 students.
- A leader would be set for each group. The leader is responsible for summarizing the peer evaluation ratings of the group.
- No voluntary separation from the group would be allowed. Thus, group transfers will not be allowed.

Important Reminders:
1. The scoring of your performance task will be on an 80-20 distribution. The 80% will come from the group score and the
20% will come from the peer evaluation score.
Example:
Group PETA score = 20
Peer evaluation score =4
Student’s total performance task score = 24

2. Each member of the group is expected to submit (on or before the set deadline) an individual peer evaluation rating to the
assigned group leader. Failure to submit will automatically mean a deduction of 2 points from the student’s group raw score
and a grade of zero (0) in the peer evaluation.
Example:
Group PETA score = 16 (minus 2 points from non-submission
of individual peer evaluation) = 14
Peer evaluation score =0
Student’s total performance task score = 14

3. Late submission may only get the score margin of “Developing”.

4. The output would be judged according to the content, organization, innovation and uniqueness, and impact of your
campaign material.

Rubric:

THE PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF EARTH’S MATERIALS AND RESOURCES

Grading Rubric
CATEGORIE Exemplary Accomplished Developing Beginning SCOR
S (4) (3) (2) (1) E
Content The material shows The material shows The material shows The material lacks
enough, informative and enough and accurate enough scientific data scientific data and
accurate scientific data scientific data and and evidence of the evidence of the earth’s
 and evidence of the
earth’s materials and
earth’s materials and
evidence of the earth’s resources but not enough materials and resources;
resources; shows
materials and resources; to make the material does not show common
common and most
shows common informative; shows problems/concerns/issue
alarming
problems/concerns/issue problems/concerns/issue s associated with the
problems/concerns/issue
s associated with the s associated with the earth’s resources and
s associated with the
earth’s resources and earth’s resources and lacks well-studied
earth’s resources and
provides appropriate provides simple solutions to the
provides well-studied
solutions to the solutions to the problems/concerns/issue
solutions and
problems/concerns/issue problems/concerns/issue s.
recommendations to the
s. s.
problems/concerns/issue
s.
The Output consist of all
The Output is missing 3
required necessary The Output is missing 1 The Output is missing 2
Completeness or more necessary
components, including necessary component. necessary components.
components.
the resources.
The material presents
The material lacks
The material presents The material presents information in an
organization and
information in logical, information in interesting arrangement,
arrangement making it
Organization interesting arrangement interesting arrangement but some details seem
hard for the
which readers/audience which readers/audience inappropriately
readers/audience to
can follow. can follow. positioned in the
follow.
material.
Innovation The idea/material is The idea/material The idea/material The idea/material does
and new, unique, shows a personal shows a personal not seem new and
Uniqueness surprising; shows a touch; it successfully touch; it breaks unique; it reflects
personal breaks conventional conventional conventional
touch; it successfully ideas; common materials ideas; common materials Ideas.
breaks conventional are used in new and are used in new and Included little materials
ideas; common materials interesting ways. interesting ways. that could contribute to
are used in new and Included some materials Included few materials the aesthetics of the
interesting ways. that could contribute to that could contribute to product
Included enough the aesthetics of the the aesthetics of the Solutions and
materials that could product product recommendations to the
 contribute to the
aesthetics of the product Solutions and
Solutions and
Solutions and recommendations to the
recommendations to the concerns/issues do not
recommendations to the concerns/issues utilizes
concerns/issues utilizes utilize current
concerns/issues are new some of the current
current advancement advancement/technology
and utilizes current advancement and
and technology to to address the problem.
advancement and technology to address
address the problem.
technology to address the problem.
the problem.
The product could
The product could help
highly help in giving The product might not The product is not good
in giving awareness to
awareness to the give awareness to the as campaign material, it
the community,
community, promotes community. It may seems that it will not
promotes conservation
conservation and somewhat encourage the encourage the
and protection of the
protection of the community to apply the community to apply the
environment, encourage
Impact environment, encourage recommended solutions recommended solutions
the community to apply
the community to apply but may not help and may not help
the recommended
the recommended significantly in significantly in
solutions, and give help
solutions, and give big conserving and conserving and
in conserving and
help in conserving and protecting the earth’s protecting the earth’s
protecting the earth’s
protecting the earth’s resources. resources.
resources.
resources.
TOTAL SCORE: